RIP Jack De Mave

 

Eve’s Obits

1/22/2025

 

Actor Jack De Mave, 92, died on Jan. 17, according to David Davis (who runs the Mary Tyler Moore Facebook page—not to be confused with the MTM producer of the same name). The tall, Arrow Collar-handsome De Mave played Forest Ranger Bob Erickson in the 1968-70 reboot of Lassie, but is best known to Baby Boomers as Rhoda’s date, “Mr. and Mrs. Armond Lynton,” on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (he turned up in a later episode, sans his “lovely wife Nancy”). From 1962 through 2008, De Mave appeared in such TV series as Surfside 6, Wagon Train, F Troop, The Fugitive, The Doris Day Show, Adam-12, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Days of Our Lives. The Jersey City native was the son of a famed boxer (Jack, Sr.), and appeared onstage in Picnic, Mr. Roberts, with Lunt and Fontanne in The Visit, and with Lee Radziwill in The Philadelphia Story. Off-Broadway, he was seen in The Sound of Music, Applause, Sweeney Todd, Guys and Dolls, Richard the Second and Macbeth. De Mave’s own lovely wife, assistant director Camille De Mave, died in 2013.

De MAVE, Jack (John Francois DeMave)

Born: 12/6/1935, Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Died: 1/17/2025, Macon, Georgia, U.S.A.